Hewlett Packard Enterprise is expanding into cloud services to help companies build data-rich mobile and enterprise applications and analyze data such as photos, audio clips and comments on social media. Haven OnDemand, which runs on computers operated by Microsoft's Azure cloud-computing, gives users access to sophisticated techniques such as machine learning without the need to maintain a data center or develop the underlying technology. HPE first pioneered this effort in December 2014 with the beta launch of HPE Haven OnDemand. Today, HPE Haven OnDemand has more than 12,750 registered developers who currently generate millions of API calls per week, and have provided feedback to improve and refine the offering. "The software industry is on the cusp of a new era of breakthroughs, driven by machine learning that will power data-driven applications across all facets of life," said Kamal Dutta, Managing Director - Software, Asia Growth Countries, Hewlett Packard Enterprise.

Extreme developments in the field of artificial intelligence have become an integral part of the technology industry. AI has helped the world reach a point where continuous improvements have resulted in making life easier for humans. "A chatbot is an artificially intelligent software program that uses natural language processing to simulate intelligent conversation with end users via auditory or textual methods".Chat Bots date as far back as 1960's and this was the time when the computer world idealized such machines which could be used to impersonate humans in real-time, sufficiently well that the reviewer was unable to distinguish, whether the conversation was between real humans themselves or between the program and a real human. Joseph Weizenbaum's, a professor at MIT developed a program named ELIZA, published in 1966. ELIZA operated in a unique way, as it focused on the recognition of cue words or phrases in the input.

"We cannot predict the future," says BMW Group design chief Adrian van Hooydonk, "but we can take a stance. That's what our company feels is very important, to try and shape the future before it shapes you." And the future, says van Hooydonk, is a lot closer than many think. He is convinced the next paradigm for the automobile and individual mobility will be shaped by technologies that will become commonplace in the next 10 years. So what does the BMW Vision Next 100, the first of four advanced concepts to be unveiled this year as BMW celebrates its centenary, reveal about a 100-year-old automaker's idea of the future?

Microsoft is the world's most valuable company, with a 261 billion market cap. And an IBM computer named Deep Blue defeats Garry Kasparov, reigning world chess champion and, at the time, the highest-ranked chess player to have ever lived. Though it was not the first time man has lost to machine, it is perhaps the most prominent, highly publicized by IBM and widely covered by the global media. It was viewed as a milestone for AI, the true arrival of computer intelligence. The world celebrated the achievement of technology -- or offered doomsday predictions of a robot revolution.

Microsoft researchers have come up with a novel way to have computers tell stories about what's happening in multiple photographs using artificial intelligence (AI). Today the company is publishing an academic paper describing the technology, which could one day power services that are especially useful to the visually impaired, as well as the photos, captions, and "stories" developed in the research. The work is significant because it goes well beyond just identifying objects in images, or even videos, in order to generate captions. "It's still hard to evaluate, but minimally you want to get the most important things in a dimension. With storytelling, a lot more that comes in is about what the background is and what sort of stuff might have been happening around the event," Microsoft researcher Margaret Mitchell told VentureBeat in an interview.

No one knows for certain what will happen if an errant drone crashes into a passenger jet. Who wants to find out for sure? Better to keep drones and planes well out of each other's way. One important step is for Congress to pass the Federal Aviation Administration reauthorization bill that's working its way through the Senate this month. Among many other things, the bill adopts some of the strictest regulations for commercial and hobby drones yet. It's way past time to start getting a handle on these flying robots.

A lot of people would struggle to get through their daily lives without the help of glasses, but for most, they help make everything they are looking at slightly clearer. But for one man, a new pair glasses is doing much more than that, allowing him to read for the first time in 20 years. Luke Hines was left blind in one eye and with only three per cent vision in the other after an operation to remove a childhood brain tumour in 1997. Luke Hines (pictured) was left blind in one eye and with only three per cent vision in the other after an operation to remove a childhood brain tumour in 1997. He was unable to attend school, has not found work because of his condition and has spent years feeling isolated.

Autism spectrum disorder (ASD) is a major developmental disorder characterized by repetitive, restricted behaviour as well as deficits in communication and reciprocal social interactions1. ASD has attracted a great deal of attention of basic and clinical scientists in the hope that clarification of its underlying mechanisms will lead to the development of remedies for ASD as well as a better understanding of the neural substrates of important cognitive functions, including social behaviour2. Despite the significance of the disorder, no effective biomarker has been developed. The medical diagnosis for ASD has been made largely based on narrative interactions between individuals and clinical professionals. With the exception of'clear and typical' cases, such diagnostic methods without any biological grounds could run the risk of producing a high variance in diagnosis3 and delaying the detection of abnormalities4.

Salesforce's recent acquisitions of AI startups including MetaMind will enable it to keep pace with the functions that consumer-focused companies … From Dick Tracy's watch to Wonder Woman's Bracelets to Bat Girls total recall and technopathy, fiction has a intriguing dialog with invention. Enable natural interaction with your app using a conversational interface powered by the Watson Developer Cloud APIs. KPMG LLP and IBM today announced plans to apply IBM's Watson cognitive computing technology to KPMG's professional services offerings. It can answer guests' questions about the hotel and tourist destinations. The hotel has recently welcomed a new concierge named "Connie," you see, and it's actually a Nao robot powered by IBM's AI.

Bots seem to be all the rage this week, thanks to the release of Facebook's Messenger Bot program at F8, but not everyone sees bots as the way to keep up with the customer service glut. DigitalGenius, a former TechCrunch Disrupt Battlefield finalist, thinks there's a better way using artificial intelligence and machine learning. The company released an entirely new product this week called the Human AI Customer Service Platform that links to popular customer service platforms like Salesforce, Zendesk and Oracle. The trouble with bots is they are limited by their programmed actions, says Mikhail Naumov, chief strategy officer at DigitalGenius. "While chat bots are cool and are getting lots of attention today -- they often break once the user asks for something that has not been pre-programmed into the bot. The DigitalGenius platform, however, combines the best of human and machine intelligence in a seamless customer service experience," Naumov told TechCrunch.